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Peter Arnett

• December 15 -- Frank Rich's Exquisite Timing
Columnist Frank Rich equates the war in Iraq with the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy--and truly breaks a leg: "In the final installment, the pre-eminent heavy of the first two parts, the evil wizard Saruman has vanished--as out of sight, if not mind, as Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein." Readers who had the TV on that morning knew otherwise.

• December 10 -- "Destroying the Village" in Iraq
More Iraq as Vietnam in an editorial: "Unwelcome as Vietnam analogies are right now, it's hard to ignore the resemblance to that infamous military comment about having to destroy a village in order to save it."

• April 1 -- Poor, Poor Peter Arnett
Times sympathy for Saddam’s favorite reporter: “[Peter Arnett] was in a war zone, working under difficult circumstances, and NBC would have looked better sticking by him than it did giving him up as soon as criticism grew acute.”

• March 31 -- Petered Out
Frank Rich’s Advocacy for Arnett and Jennings Turns Embarrassing.